Handy Person: Renovation Assistant & Community Outreach - Langford Conservancy

Are you interested in helping us to renovate our community hall and to care for the grounds?
Would you like to do help foster a more inclusive community for migrant farm workers, and seniors?
Would you like to help rescue food and redistribute it?
Do you want to learn about protecting farmland and doing conservation work on farmland and natural areas?

We are a small, not for profit organization that own the Langford Schoolhouse, and provides outreach to ecological farmers, seniors, and migrant farm workers. We are founding members of Lynden Friends of Migrant Farm Workers. We operate the Langford Schoolhouse as an accessible rural community hub, with a certified kitchen. The Langford Schoolhouse has an array of solar panels that produce energy that we feed into the grid.

We also …

• protect farmland and local ecosystems,
• promote ecotourism with bird and plant walks on a local organic farm,
• rescue and redistribute organic food to migrant farm workers and seniors, and
• redistribute some bikes to migrant farm workers

You would be involved in helping with the following:

• maintenance of the Schoolhouse grounds and property,
• renovations to the Schoolhouse including, but not limited to cement work, siding, framing, foundation work, drywalling and painting the interior space,
• care and maintenance related to eco-tourism for events, including grounds work, food rescue and redistribution, and
• outreach and social media

Term: mid-April to mid-October